Improvement in tombstones from potterss clay



W. P. & W. D. LOYD. Tomb-Stone from Potters Clay.

No. 216,427. Patented lpne 10, 1879.

WITNESSES INVENTORS ATTORNEY MPEIERS, PNDTO-UTHOGRLPHER. WASHINGTON a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. LOYD AND WILLIAM D. LOYD, OF TREMONT, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOMBSTONES FROM POTTERS (JLAY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,427, dated June 10, 1879; application filed April 1, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM PAYNE LOYD and WILLIAM DICKINSON LoYD, of Tremont, in the county of Itawamba and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tombstones; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved tombstone with a low base. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, partly in section, showing a monumental or high base for same.

This invention has relation to that class of monuments and tombstones made of potter-s clay; and it consists of certain improvements in the construction of the same, hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

. In the accompanying drawings, similar letters of reference indicate like parts of the invention.

. adapted to receive the superstructure A, of the same material, in the manner and for the purpose herein shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM PAYNE LOYD. WVILLIAM DICKINSON LOYD.

\Vitnesses Z. M. ALEXANDER, YONG. Nears. 

